Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SEVEN LIVELY ARTS?Gilbert Seldes?Harper ($4.00). This annoying but pertinent book would persuade one that slapstick comedy, jazz music, comic strips and Ring Lardner are the most worth-while contemporary revelations of the soul of America, and that the Krazy Kat cartoons are "the most satisfactory work of art produced in America today." Mr. Seldes, whose present occupation is the more unexpected in that he is known as a critic of the major arts, here takes up the cudgels in behalf of the so-called "lowbrow" products...
...last seven years, 176 graduates of low grade medical colleges secured licenses through the eclectic board, and of these 176, 166 were graduates of the Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery. This was one of the two medical schools shown to have been involved in the diploma-mill (ring, exposed first by the St. Louis Star. The publicity and scandal aroused by this expose presumably had no serious influence on the eclectic board in Arkansas. This board licensed 36 graduates of low grade schools during 1923. Such states as reciprocate in the matter of licensure with Arkansas must...
...Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The construction of a balloon is comparatively simple. It consists of a huge bag some 30 or more feet in diameter, spherical in cut but assuming an egg shaped form with the bigger end at the top; round the gas bag is the load ring from which are suspended a series of cables holding the basket; the basket much resembles a housewife's market basket- only much bigger, some 3% feet high, 3 feet wide and 3% feet long. In the basket are ballast, instruments, warm clothing, food, water, coffee, sterno. The balloonists...
...people of the Argentine have never forgiven him form even considering taking out naturalization papers and becoming an American citizen," said Mr. Hopkins. "His, defeat reacted against him also. There is little doubt in my mind that he has permanently severed his connection with the ring...
...volume of critical essays, Mr. Van Doren again applies a skilful scalpel to his literary contemporaries. The very titles of the chapters are a triumph: Smartness and Light, for H. L. Mencken; Youth and Wings, for Edna St. Vincent Millay; Flame and Slag, for Carl Sandburg; Beyond Grammar, for Ring Lardner. He covers the field of philosophers, poets, wits, essayists. His estimates are tempered with sympathy, humor, real understanding. He praises and blames ; weighs faults against virtues. One reads on absorbedly for some time before one becomes subtly conscious that no final criticism has been made, no judgment pronounced...